-**Thursday, November 10, 7:30 PM** Dr. Michael King, an experienced high-performance HF receiver designer, will talk on hardware design for Software Defined Radio systems that hams can build. Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA. 1244 Oak Ridge Avenue, McLean, VA. The meeting room is on the main floor, not the old location in the basement.

+**Thursday, 15 December, 7:30 PM** MEETING DATE CHANGE. AMRAD's Annual Meeting. This will be an opportunity for Board Members and Members to report on technical projects and to discuss plans for 2012. Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA.

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+Elections will be held at the meeting. Nominations may also be made to Secretary Karl Berger, w4krl@dcm-va.com, up until the beginning of the December meeting. Directors whose terms are expiring are Bill Fenn, N4TS; Frank Gentges, KØBRA; and Paul Rinaldo, W4RI. Those three receiving the most votes will become Directors. Those receiving the next two number of votes will become Alternates. Paul Mooney, K4KRE and Rob Seastrom, AI4UC are incumbent Alternates for 2011.

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+**Thursday, January 12** Greg LeSage will be our guest speaker. His topic is performance modeling of the Terminated Folded Dipole.

**Thursday, October 13** This meeting was devoted to a discussion of digital amateur television by Bill Fenn, N4TS and Paul Rinaldo, W4RI. DVB-S and other protocols were covered. See synopsis of this meeting in the Nov-Dec AMRAD Newsletter.

-**Thursday, September 8** This meeting was affected by the heavy rain which caused many people and the speaker to be caught in traffic.

+### Upcoming Events

-**Thursday, July 14** This meeting was a preparation for our Manassas special event of 21-24 July jointly with the Ole Virginia Hams.